Closing the Book on the President's Decifit Commission

So, given that the unemployment rate and the tax-rate fight are overshadowing the president's budget commission, and given that the deeply divided commission vote means that in all likelihood the report will take its place on the shelf to gather dust alongside all such beautiful reports issued by earnest hardworking public servants – just as we said it would – it does argue for our wise-man approach of taking it out of the realm of the normal politics and shooing all the interested parties out of the room so that the commissioners might be liberated to do radical things like vote for something that they might not entirely like. Balls are required, or nothing will ever happen. So we suppose that is the lesson from all this. That and that we'd like to rescind our compliment to Paul Ryan (above) as one of the best sitting members of the United States Congress, for his stupid and cynical vote against Simpson-Bowles, a serious plan to attack the deficit. He shows himself to be a liar when it comes to the deficit. We hope that we've offered some truth in these last six months....